With Easter not too far away, the chocolate is selling out and final delivery dates are fast approaching.

These are the Easter delivery dates for 2015, for the chocolate shops whose chocolate has appeared on my site, and those that give Easter delivery information. Easter Sunday is the 5th of April, but the Friday before is Bank Holiday – so no deliveries or post, some Saturday deliveries are available.

* Standard delivery does not guarantee delivery before Easter Sunday, to get your chocolate Easter eggs in time – order early and select the Express, Premium, Gold, Next Day, Special Delivery service offered.

Express Delivery can either be Special Delivery by Royal mail, DHL or another courier service.

You can order right up until 8pm on Thursday 2nd April 2015, for delivery on Saturday before Easter Sunday, or Hotel Chocolat offer Same Day till 3pm on Saturday 5th April.

Hotel Chocolat have a large range of Easter eggs and Easter chocolate, with twenty different eggs to choose from, the 2015 chocolate Easter egg selection combines the return of popular Hotel Chocolat eggs, reinvented Easter eggs and new innovations in chocolate.

The Ostrich Egg

The largest Hotel Chocolat Easter egg is the enormous Ostrich egg, this egg has two extra-large and thick chocolate shells with a selection of chocolates; the egg is filled with Easter chocolates and mini gold foil wrapped chocolate eggs.

The Ostrich Egg is presented in ribbon tied hat box with splashes of gold. The very impressive Ostrich Easter egg is £75.00, and weighs just over a kilo in weight.

Extra Thick Easter Eggs

Hotel Chocolat’s Extra Thick Easter eggs are fast becoming a must have for Easter, these luxury Easter eggs are very popular; large Easter eggs with two chunky extra thick shell halves filled with a selection of Easter chocolates inside matching the flavours and type of chocolate the egg is made from.

In total there are seven Hotel Chocolat Extra Thick Easter eggs in different combinations of milk, white or dark chocolate:

Inside the chunky, 40% milk chocolate, Egglet egg are twelve Egglets, flavoured mini eggs, in a selection of milk, white and dark chocolate filled with caramel, praline and fruity truffles. This was previously called The Eggsibitionist egg.

Chocolate chicks, Easter bunnies, smiley faces and chocolate fried eggs are packed into the fun You Crack Me Up egg, a milk and white chocolate egg – ideal for children or “big kids”.

One half of the egg is made with 72% cocoa dark chocolate from Madagascar and the other shell half is made with 70% Saint Lucia Island Growers milk chocolate and inside the chocolates tasting squares are made with even more cocoa variations.

A little more expensive, and a smidge less chocolate, than the other Extra Thick Easter eggs at £29.00, 350g, but the same thick shells. Made with chocolate from around the world.

The Facet Easter Egg

Hotel Chocolat’s Facet Egg, this quirky egg, which was introduced last year, is both unusual and interesting. Easter eggs are essentially one shape, the egg shape, the Facet egg plays with geometry, the classic egg shape is changed by adding hexagonal pyramids, which curve perfectly with the shell of the egg, creating the rather beautiful Facet Easter eggs.

The Facet egg is even made from a fascinating type of chocolate, Hotel Chocolat’s Supermilk, the flavours of milk chocolate with the strength of dark chocolate, 65% cocoa milk chocolate and less sugar than a dark chocolate.

£18.00, 200g.

Scrambled Easter Eggs

New for 2015 from Hotel Chocolat are the Scrambled eggs, four chocolate Easter eggs decorated with swirls of chocolate on the shell and presented in a box with a selection of chocolates.

The milk chocolate Scrambled Easter egg is made from milk chocolate with swirls of natural coloured chocolate decorating the shell and a packet of six Scrambled Pralines, decorated to look like the egg.

Also made with milk chocolate, but Milk-Free chocolate, is the Milk-Free milk chocolate Scrambled Easter egg, and as the name suggests the chocolate is dairy free and vegan as the milk element has been removed from the chocolate and replace with almond powder, the egg also comes with six Nutty Fruitcases, made with the same Milk-Free chocolate.

Easter Egg Sandwiches

Hotel Chocolat’s Easter Egg Sandwiches may be smaller than their other Easter eggs but they are packed with flavour and chocolate. Each egg is made of two Easter egg halves which been squished into two slabs of chocolate and sandwiched back-to-back and packaged in sandwich, style, boxes to create the colourful, fun and tasty Easter Eggs Sandwiches. The sandwich eggs come in four different flavours:

Goose Easter Eggs

Hotel Chocolat’s Goose eggs are also new for Easter 2015 and just like the Ostrich egg, the goose eggs are the same size and shape as their namesake.

The Goose eggs are speckled with chocolate and are available in three different flavours; milk chocolate, caramel chocolate and Milk-Free chocolate, and like the Scrambled eggs each egg comes with chocolates, in this case either mini eggs or chocolate buttons.

Both the milk chocolate Goose Easter egg and the caramel chocolate Goose Easter egg are boxed with a bag of mini chocolate eggs, Egglets, wrapped in gold foil. The milk chocolate Goose egg is made from 40% cocoa milk chocolate and the mini eggs are filled with molten caramel. The caramel Goose egg is accompanied by smooth pecan praline mini eggs.

Summary

There are twenty Easter eggs in total, in six different styles, not including Egglets, and is not all of the Easter chocolates from Hotel Chocolat for Easter 2015, they have even more for Easter and a massive selection non-Easter chocolate on their website; Hotel Chocolat.

There are three Easter chocolate gift sets from Thorntons featuring Harry Hopalot, and of course Easter eggs, the biggest of the three is Thorntons' Harry Hopalot Chocolate Easter Egg Gift Set, a massive selection of chocolate put together as a rather large Easter egg hunt pack, which contains:

Two milk chocolate Easter eggs.

Two white chocolate Easter eggs.

Thorntons Football Fanatic Easter Egg.

Thorntons Butterfly Easter Egg.

Two milk Chocolate Harry Hopalots, medium and large.

Two Harry Hopalot chocolate lollies.

Four bags of chocolate Thorntons Smiles, milk and white chocolate.

Two Thorntons Smiles Fudge Cubes in bags.

Thorntons Smiles milk chocolate coins.

And the Harry Hopalot soft toy.

£50.00, £35.00, 1.5kg.

The other two chocolate gifts sets are aimed more at one person; both have an Easter egg which can be personalised, for free, the Harry Hopalot Milk Chocolate Easter Collection has a milk chocolate egg, with a jar of speckled chocolate eggs, two Harry Hopalot lollies and the Harry Hopalot soft toy.

The Giant Easter egg, this massive Easter egg, from James Chocolates, is one of the biggest eggs you can buy for Easter 2015.

Made by James Chocolates this massive egg is made with 2.5kg of milk chocolate, decorated with chocolate dust and large chocolate buttons with letters on, which spell out “Happy Easter”. This very impressive egg stands over 40cm high and 30cm at the widest point, because it is so big the egg has its own chocolate stand, so it doesn’t roll over, made from chocolate at the base of the giant egg.

The Giant Easter egg is presented in clear cellophane, presumable because they can’t find a box big enough, and tied with a James Chocolates ribbon. A very big egg!!

New for Easter 2015 and made with 43% cocoa, Venezuelan, milk chocolate the Chococo Lemon & Raspberry Easter Egg is decorated on the outside with swirls and splashes of white and pink, which is naturally coloured white chocolate, and the inside of the egg is studded with candied lemon and dried raspberries.

Lemon and raspberry doesn’t sound like a flavour combination that’s goes well with chocolate, it sounds too sharp and sour, but one thing in have learnt is that chocolate changes flavours and how the flavours are prepared also makes a difference.

The raspberry is freeze dried so you get a little crunch with a bust of zesty raspberry flavour and as the lemon is candied it’s sweet with just the taste of lemon, with no bitterness or sharpness.

When you crack open the egg, you are presented with a layers of milk chocolate covering the fruit inside; large chunky sections of candied lemon and small pieces of raspberry with a hint of colour showing through.

It is not until you crack the shell the true colours show appears, bright reds and mellow yellows emerge from the brown chocolate.

Sweet and sticky with bursts of fruit which work perfectly with the rich milk chocolate, a fun egg with texture, flavour and a splash of colour – a must try!

Hotel Chocolat’s Mini Eggs, which are also called Hotel Chocolat Egglets are egg-shaped chocolates found throughout the Hotel Chocolat Easter chocolate range.

I always tend to focus on the fabulous chocolate Easter eggs from Hotel Chocolat, Hotel Chocolat’s Easter Eggs 2015, and I always leave out quite a large selection of their Easter chocolates, just because they are small, but Hotel Chocolat’s Egglets are technically mini Easter eggs as well!

Just like the larger Easter eggs the mini eggs from Hotel Chocolat, Egglets, are available in a wide selection of flavours and types of chocolate.

{Hotel Chocolat have a large range of Easter eggs and Easter chocolate, with twenty different eggs to choose from, the 2015 chocolate Easter egg selection combines the return of popular Hotel Chocolat eggs, reinvented Easter eggs and new innovations in chocolate.}

Hotel Chocolat Mini Eggs Chocolate Box

Probably one of the best examples of the variety of Hotel Chocolate’s Egglets is the Hotel Chocolat Mini Eggs Chocolate Box, The Egglet Sleekster specially created for Easter, thirty mini eggs in ten different flavours in a single layer chocolate box.

Similar but not quite the same is Hotel Chocolat’s Egglet Chocolate Egg Box also called A Dozen Quail Egglets, twelve mini eggs in a clear egg box style box, with a few different flavours from the larger boxes.

The best fun Easter eggs for kids, 2015, the most popular and most fun chocolate Easter eggs for children this Easter.

Easter is a time for family and having fun, I tend to write about chocolate Easter eggs for adults more than for children, so here are the best and most popular Easter eggs for kids, and all of these children’s eggs have a fun element.

All of these fun Easter eggs are available to buy online.

The reason these are the “fun” eggs for children is because I will also be doing a “practical” Easter eggs list for kids. This list is a combination of the eggs I have bought previous years, Easter eggs I will be buying, the most popular chocolate eggs and eggs that I just find charming!

1. James Chocolates Cow Easter Egg

The James Chocolates Cow Easter Egg is an absolutely adorable chocolate Easter egg, designed to look like a cow! The Barnyard big cow egg is handmade with milk, dark, white and coloured chocolate to give the cow a cute face with big eyes and he is even chewing on a daisy!

3. The Cocoabean Company Potting Chocolate Egg With Seeds

The milk chocolate egg, with a big smiling face, sits in a plant pot with a, green frog, trowel and a packet of sunflower seeds – so after the egg is gone you can plant up the seeds and watch the sunflowers grow.

5. Shaun the Sheep Easter Egg

It is basically marketing for Shaun the Sheep Movie, but I don’t care that much as I am a big fan of Divine’s Fairtrade chocolate, Shaun the Sheep and Aardman Animations, so go nuts and support them all at once!

The egg is made from milk chocolate and with it you get a fun set of sheep ears, yep sheep ears!, a bit like the Lindt Fluffy Bunny Ears.

Each of the beautifully designed Artisan du Chocolat Easter eggs are presented as the top layer of an Easter egg shaped chocolate box, this layer slides away to open the box and reveal a selection of Artisan du Chocolat’s signature chocolates hidden below.

The chocolate boxes spring yellow on the inside and decorated on the outside with a pattern made up of fans of petals in blue, yellow and pink; matching the yellow inside and complimenting the plush turquoise ribbon used to fasten the box.

The Kaleidoscope Egg

The Kaleidoscope Easter Egg is decorated with drops naturally coloured sugar, which perfectly match the colours in the pattern on the outside of the chocolate box, adding texture to the dulce de leche milk chocolate.

This milk chocolate egg is available in a choice of two sizes, from the Artisan du Chocolat website.

£24.99 – £42.99, 290g – 500g.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Alcohol Free.

The Hummingbird Egg

Decorated with a streak of gold and a cut-out circle The Hummingbird Easter Egg becomes a bird house, a place for edible hummingbirds to rest.

Montezuma’s are probably best known for their chocolate truffles and chocolate bars, luxury handmade chocolates made in the UK from the award winning British chocolatier, but they also have a range of chocolate Easter eggs featuring the biggest Easter eggs, eco-friendly eggs and chocolate eggs filed with giant chocolates buttons!

A lot of Montezuma’s chocolate is organic, or qualifies as organic, but not all of their Easter eggs are – so double check, they are however GM, preservatives and colouring free.

Montezuma’s Enormous Easter Eggs

The biggest Easter eggs in Montezuma’s Easter egg range are the rather aptly names Enormous Easter Eggs, not only are they the largest from Montezuma’s chocolate by also, currently, the biggest you can buy standing a massive 31cm tall and weighing a kilo each!

Both enormous eggs are new for 2015 and are wrapped in clear cellophane and tied with a big ribbon and Easter gift tag.

£44.99, 1kg each.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.

Montezuma’s Giant Easter Eggs

The biggest Easter eggs from previous years Montezuma’s Giant Easter Eggs are still very large, a whopping 17cm x 24cm each!

The design has change a little as both eggs now have fudge crammed into the shell, for added texture and contrast. And just like the Enormous eggs both eggs are presented in ribbon tied clear cellophane with a gift tag,

£29.99, 600g each.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Gluten Free.

Montezuma’s Chocolate Truffle Eggs

Handmade luxury chocolate Easter eggs filled with Montezuma’s chocolate truffles, very popular in previous years Montezuma’s Chocolate Truffle Eggs are back with a new look.

Montezuma’s Chocolate Button Eggs

If you are a fan of chocolate buttons then you may already be a fan of Montezuma’s Giant Chocolate Buttons, if not then defiantly give them a try, for Easter 2015 Montezuma’s have two chocolate Easter eggs filled with their chocolate buttons, which are huge! – chocolate button wise.

The Chococo Robot Easter Egg, or to give it it’s proper title the “C181 Robot Egg Easter Egg” a new egg for 2015 made from milk chocolate by Chococo.

When I first heard about this egg, all I knew about it was that it was a milk chocolate egg with a chocolate robot inside, rather intriguing – but nothing to get too excited about, so I gave it a try and I am so glad I did. Chococo have worked their chocolate magic (again!) and turned what could have been, quite frankly, a dull and plain egg into a fun, delicious and imaginative egg.

The outside of the Chococo Robot Easter Egg is dusted with edible silver, which gives the shell a shimmer and makes it look like it comes from outer space, a bit like you would expect a moon rock to look like. When you crack the egg open you find two C181 milk chocolate robots inside, dusted with edible gold and surrounded by mini gold ingots of sugar, embedded in the chocolate. Making it look like the egg is a chocolate spaceship and the chocolate robots have just landed!

Neither the silver or gold shimmers, on the outside of the egg or on the C181 robot inside, effect the flavour of the chocolate which is 43% cocoa Venezuelan milk chocolate, which has a rich flavour and just melts in the mouth. All of Chococo’s milk chocolate Easter eggs use the same 43% cocoa chocolate, the flavour is robust enough to stand by itself but doesn’t over power other flavours, and it simple a delight to eat.

Handmade in the UK, in the “The Chocolate Shed” a few miles from Swanage, Dorset by someone that must be covered head to toe in edible shimmer!

The C181 robot is the little brother of the BroBot, who is also available in the same milk chocolate and gold shimmer.